Word: collector
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Undaunted by a new law that, for the first time, makes it a punishable offense (maximum penalty: three years' imprisonment) to file a fraudulent national income-tax return, Italy's taxpayers last week kicked off their annual game of "Guess My Income" with local community tax collectors. The rules of play are simple and timehonored: 1) in public declarations made without oath, each taxpayer makes a guess at his income; 2) the municipal tax collector, sizing up the taxpayer's visible possessions, then makes his guess anywhere from two to thirty times as high and racks...
...game is sometimes played with gallantry by the tax collectors. During her last taxable year, for instance, curvaceous Cinemactress Gina Lollobrigida made three movies, each of which reportedly netted her close to $128,000. Gina modestly estimated her earnings at $40,000, and Rome's tax estimators were kind enough to suggest that perhaps she had earned $128.000 in all. Actress Sophia Loren guessed that she earned $13,000; the tax collector guessed she earned $40,000; according to industry figures, she may have made as much as $480,000. Veteran Actor Vittorio de Sica guessed his income...
...Marshal Pietro Badoglio: his guess, $5,600; collector's guess, $17,600. ¶Rome's leading Surgeon Pietro Valdoni: his guess, $24,000; collector's guess...
...Papal Physician Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi: his guess, $3,600; collector's guess...
...down their observations, and most of these have been carefully preserved and published. Then, in 1953, additional documents were discovered in the attic of an old house in St. Paul, Minn. Last week those papers were the subject of a lawsuit that had many a U.S. scholar, collector and librarian on edge...